Extend Home-screen horizontally if running apps > 9 [released]

answered 2013-12-26 12:20:28 +0300

DanyZ
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updated 2014-01-15 23:18:47 +0300

foss4ever
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Personally I think swiping horizontally from the home-screen to go to next 9 apps and so on would be the best.

Edit: if edge-swipes (push-left and push-right) are used for this it avoids any conflicts with cover-actions, but requires that the Ambiance-gestures are only used in the Lock-screen (which has been suggested else-where) so that these horizontal gestures can be used in Home screen to expose more open apps.

answered 2013-12-26 05:30:06 +0300

simo
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updated 2013-12-30 20:52:55 +0300

Edit: Related to /636/custom-push-actions-gestures/

We're after a compromise here, considering all the different users... For each, they have their most used features and they want a quick access to those. For one it's ambience, other settings, then notfications, then running apps list, then bookmarks, then camera/photos, then music libraries, then people, then latest new apps in store... The way to go is enabling CUSTOMIZING as far as possible. What's locked now are:

• the location & entering method of screens
• the amount of screens (exept for launcer, which get's a new screen below when needed)
• the home screen limited to 2 contents (0-9 visible covers, 4 most important apps)
• the setting quick swithes ([edit: remove] location only at settings primary screen)
• [edit: add] the content of the lock screen
• [edit: add] the screen brightness lowest/highest percentage
• [edit: add] the screen shutdown time lowest/highest time

We have plenty of gestures for moving (swipe to 4 directions, swipe from the edge 4 directions, hold+swipe 4 directions makes 12, and all these are done with just one finger. We have a Touch screen supporting double-finger and triple-fingre etc... gestures. Unlimited amount of choises. Unused opportunities. So, why not let the user decide where each gesture leads? And let user decide how many items are in each screen/bar/menu, and of course, what items - even more, what type of items.

To go on beyond unlike, a screen can be divided to header/body/footer which each could have own item types and gestures. Rolling the footer horizontally, having like 12 most used apps. Rolling the header vertically, having like 12 most used settings switches. Or hiding the whole header to have more room for the body, if you don't use the settings that much. Or changing the header to show your favourite people/photos/music..., changing the footer for your notifications, the body for your several calendars... you know, this could go forever. Just turn it UNLIKELY CUSTOMIZABLE. Break the experience. Forget the old - we've seen that already. Have fun!

answered 2013-12-25 05:03:00 +0300

foss4ever
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Not probably a direct answer to the question, but to deepen and widen the options of a possible solution to this UI enhancement, I'd like to link you to this discussion and concept abt ways to improve the current Jolla Ui As you can see it is mainly about organizing the screens differently and optimally to let user setup the location of different screens and even the swipes howto get there. If the Ambiance change was left to Pulley menu in Lock screen, then we would have left and right swipes in Lock Screen and Multitasking (Home) Screen free to user to choose prefered apps or views to opened. Also the screen where installed applications are should be possible to organize with folders to make it manageable and more usable

answered 2013-12-25 17:40:24 +0300

MartinK
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What about extending the switcher vertically ? I would not mind to got through two pages of running apps.

Or maybe make possible both - enable users to choose how many switcher screens they want vertically & horizontally, like in normal Linux DMs?

answered 2013-12-26 16:46:56 +0300

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updated 2014-01-10 15:59:28 +0300

chemist
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My suggestion: the ambience switcher would be accessed from the edge of the lock screen as it is, and the default home screen by swiping up from the lock screen as it is, with additional covers opening in new screens (each accommodating a maximum of 9 covers) in a horizontal ring, accessible by a push gesture, left or right, replacing the ambience switcher at the home screen.

In other words, if you have 20 apps open: double tap -> lock screen; swipe up -> home screen, apps 1..9; push left -> cover screen, apps 10..18; push left -> cover screen, apps 18..20; push left -> back to home screen. The swipe up and down gestures would always bring up the launcher and lock screen, respectively.

The return to the last used app function, suggested elsewhere, could be accessed from the lock screen with a left or right pull gesture, which are currently unused. Also, I would keep the ambience switcher easily accessible from the lock screen, since with custom ambiences having customizable ringtones and volumes, it's in my opinion a very useful function.

EDIT pull is from inside the screen, swipe is from outside the screen

answered 2013-12-25 01:26:09 +0300

Mariusmssj
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Or you could stack open apps for example if you have 3 ongoing text conversations on messaging app, you could have a stacked single cover. A long hold over it/or other better way could open up the and show the 3 other covers and you could just choose the one you wanted.

just an idea

answered 2014-01-09 17:09:50 +0300

chemist
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updated 2014-01-10 15:55:52 +0300

This again breaks with the UI, having longtap to go to task-manager style or the covers scrollable vertically and change/pinch between 2x2 3x3 and even 4x4 are the only options without breaking the current UI. Abusing swipes I would be careful with. If you like to have an alternative UI you might want to make one your own and put it on top of nemo instead of pulling sailfish/silica apart. Keep in mind that even with 9 visible covers you just don't get the cover-actions and the cover-art but multitasking still applies - the app is running and tapping its icon in launcher will bring it up - the 24 of your 28 most used apps are one pull away if you managed to sort your launcher!

To give you an answer:

I'd like to see a zoom gesture to get a 4x4 display with all covers scrollable like in task-manager but behaving like on home-screen with favourites-bar -> returning to 3x3 when tapping a cover, zoomed in again, display times out, swipes happen or pulled from the favourites-bar to launcher-screen - not to be returning when using cover-actions. To have the covers at the maximum size the cover distance needs to be reduced!

EDIT: for the ambience chooser: there is yet to come more functionality to ambiences than just a profile+background changes